Supporting evidence for Mosasaurus being great:
Dino feathers:
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Neither Mosasaurus nor Ichthyosaurus is a dinosaur.
/nerd
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Why? Do they count as fish or have we figured out they’re something different than was originally thought when the skeletons were assembled?
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They’re extinct marine reptiles, but they aren’t dinosaurs. They also aren’t very closely related to each other.
Here’s a (stolen) simplified clade; plesiosaurs are in Plesiosauria; Mosasours are in Lepidosauria (as are modern snakes and lizards), then dinosaurs (and a whole bunch of other shit) are in Archosauria:
Archosauria:
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Neat!
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Brontosaurus still has my heart, even though I’m pretty sure that’s not his name anymore. Allosaurus?
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I always pick Parasaurolophus or Stegosaurus. Ankylosaurs are pretty cool too.
My 6 year old loves the Pachycephalosaurus, because they run into each other with their giant hard heads.
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No doubt
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I listened to “The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet” by John Green and my favorite part of the whole book was his solution to the groundhog in his garden.
spoilers I guess? it's a memoir
I’d much rather grow a tiny bonus garden for the resident critters than Elmer Fudd it up
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